[4] It winds across the Panhandle into the South Plains, then runs east across the Red River Valley.

[5] With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of R+26, it is one of the most Republican districts in Texas.

Republicans now dominate at nearly every level of government, routinely winning by landslide margins when they face any opposition at all.

In 2016, it was Hillary Clinton's second largest margin of defeat in a congressional district after Alabama's 4th.

She received an even lower percentage than President Obama four years prior, gathering 16.9% of the vote compared to Donald Trump's 79.9%.